Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia
Ministry Of Higher Education
Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz University
College Of ScienceAnd Humanitarian Studies
Al Aflaj- Female Centre – English Deparment
English department- level 5
Semantics: Course Plan
1. Course title and code: ENG 3560 - Semantics
2.Credit hours: 3 hours Contact hours: 3
3. The Title of the book: Hurford, James and Brendan Heasley .Semantics: a
course book. 1983. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
4. Level/year at which this course is offered: level (5) English -third year
5.Name of faculty member responsible for the course
Hibatallah Mohammed
6. staff member's contact hours: 4 hours per week, on Sundays at 9:30 10:25&Wednesdays at 10:25 -12:25 .
Objectives:By the end of this course students should be :
1- realize the nature of meaning, conceptions of meaning and the basic
ideas in Semantics such as reference ,symbol, denotation and implication.
2- recognize the semantic feature as well as semantics roles.
3- Know what is pragmatics, the difference between pragmatics and
Semantics and the different types of Speech Acts.
4- recognize Metaphor, Simile and other related figure of speech.
5- Know about collocation and semantic field and Deixis
6-identify the semantic change and etymology.
7-identify Lexicology & Lexicography.
Contact hours
No ofWeeks Topics To Be Covered
3 hours
1
3 hours
2
Acquaint students with course objectives, methods,
requirements, and grading policies. Introduce the
major concepts in the course.
About semantics
3 hours
3
Sentences ,utterances and propositions
3 hours
4
Reference and sense
3 hours
5
Referring expressions
3 hours
6
Predicates
3 hours
7
Predicates, referring expressions and universe of
discourse
First mid-term exam
3 hours
8
Words and things
3 hours
9
Extensions and prototypes
3 hours
10
Sense properties and stereotypes
3 hours
11
Sense relations
3 hours
12
Word meaning
About dictionaries
3 hours
13
Speech Acts
3 hours
14
Perlocutions and illocutions+ 2 Mid exam
3 hours
15
REVISION & QUESTIONS
Schedule of Assessment Tasks for Students During the Semester
Assessment Assessment task (e.g. essay,
test, group project,
examination etc.)
Week due
Proportion of
Final
Assessment
1st midterm
Week 7
15%
Participation & Attendance
All along
5%
Quizzes & Homework
All along
5%
2nd midterm
Week 14
15%
1
2
3
4
5
Final
Contact Email:
a.saeed@sau.edu.sa
60%